On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:28:18PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote: > If I compare stdexcept.s when building with /usr/sfw/bin/gas vs. gas > 2.15.96, I see differences like the following: > > .Ltext0: > .weak _ZTISt11logic_error > - .section .gnu.linkonce.r._ZTISt11logic_error,"a",@progbits > + .section > .gnu.linkonce.r._ZTISt11logic_error,"aG",@progbits,_ZTISt11logic_error,comdat > > Comparing gcc/auto-host.h between bootstraps with those different gas > versions, I find: > > /* Define 0/1 if your assembler supports COMDAT group. */ > -#define HAVE_GAS_COMDAT_GROUP 0 > +#define HAVE_GAS_COMDAT_GROUP 1 > > So obviously Sun ld doesn't have the necessary support for COMDAT groups > (even with GNU ld, a quite recent version seems to be required). > Unfortunately, gcc's configure.ac doesn't check for this, but should.
So you're using gas with the Sun linker? Yes, the configure check definitely needs to test both as and ld. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
